Manuelito’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Manuelito. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusManuelito is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on the Navajo Nation in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 68.
Half of its homes were built before 1991.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Manuelito yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Manuelito’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Manuelito’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewManuelito, New Mexico. Indian "ho…, 1943: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Manuelito
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Manuelito, decade by decade
1970s
1990s
Nothing in Manuelito is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Manuelito has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is State Maintained Route 66-Manuelito to the Arizona Border in Manuelito, 1.9 miles away.
Manuelito and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Manuelito, New Mexico. Indian "hogans" along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Gallup, New Mexico and … (1943) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.